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Florida’s governor warns that Tropical Storm Idalia is going to be a major hurricane. Columbia-based Missouri Task Force One (MO-TF1) has been ordered to deploy to Pensacola, Florida. Pensacola is the westernmost city in Florida’s Panhandle and has a population of about 54,000 residents. Boone County Fire Protection District assistant chief Gale Blomenkamp says Missouri Task Force One’s 45 members …

A Columbia man is dead after a head-on crash in Morgan County. The Highway Patrol says Michael Paladino, 33, was driving his SUV on Highway 5, near Route MM Saturday night at around 8:30 p.m. His SUV crossed the center line and hit a pickup truck head-on. Paladino was pronounced dead at the scene. Two people in the pickup, James …

There were two deaths at the Lake of the Ozarks over the weekend. A Sunrise Beach woman was killed during a boat crash Saturday night. The crash happened just before 8 p.m. at the 24 mile mark of the main channel. Nicholette McKenna, 44, was killed in the crash that occurred when the boat got too close to a dock, …

There are several new state laws that took effect Monday. Missouri’s ban on transgender health care for minors is one of them. Starting Monday, healthcare providers are banned from performing gender-affirming care to minors, and also cannot refer them to other providers for those procedures. Missouri’s hands-free driving law also takes effect today. Drivers are no longer allowed to physically …

Columbia resident Shaunda Hamilton is the founder of Boone County Community Against Violence. She formed it after her daughter, 18-year-old Nadria Wright, was shot to death in 2019 after leaving the McDonald’s on the Business Loop, where she had picked up a milk shake. Ms. Hamilton joined 939 the Eagle’s Fred Parry in-studio for the hour on Saturday morning’s “CEO …